RE: How to identify a Pantone color

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• How to get gradient Pantone colors?

  My customer logo has a shield with a gradient on it, and I don't know how to determine what pantone colors they are. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

  If its juice all made from random CMYK or rub generates, then you could open it in photoshop, or copy - paste in it.

  You can then use the pipette and the photoshop color picker lets you click to display the closest Pantone color match.

  its not always accurate, but it's a good start, you can then look for numbers in the book of pantone and soften it to something that seems closer, or has a substitute CMYK better / build process work.

• How can I add Pantone color books Illustrator CC?

  I'm used to using the Pantone Process color book in illustrator, but is absent from my CC of Illustrator. How can I add? I got it to work, so I guess it's a book of standard color, because my work never paid for something more. I see I have a coated CMYK + Pantone color book, but the names of the witnesses differ from Pantone Solid color book process that I'm used.

  Oh. then you ask for old pantone books?

  Here you go

  Dropbox - pantones.zip

  Let me know when you have it because I want to delete it.

• How to add a PANTONE color to docs?

  Hello world

  I had this script

  docs var = app.documents.

  for (var i = docs.length - 1; i > = 0; i--) {}

  try {}

  docs [i].colors.item ("body text color') .name;

  }

  {} catch (MonErreur)

  . colors.add docs [i] ({name: "Body color", model: ColorModel.process,})

  ({colorValue: [20, 100, 80, 10]});

  }

  }

  to add color to docs, but

  How can change the value of PANTONE color?

  Thank you

  Respect of

  Teetan

  app.activeDocument.importAdobeSwatchbookSpotColor ("PANTONE yellow C");

• How to print the pantone colors

  I have a CS3 with a 10.5.8, operating system and I want to print a file that I did with the Pantone color chart.

  My printer is a Canon Pixma iP 4000.

  I tried to use photoshop manages colors in handling, with cmyk-US web coated printer profile, with relative colorimetric intent color rendering.

  Black point compensation?

  Please tell us what settings should I use to get the colors pantone correctly under color management

  Thank you

  Finnegan56

  Oh dear... you can't!

  You will need xxxx PANTONE ink... ie: its for offset printing, printing etc. of screen not for desktop printers

  G

• check the pantone color

  Hello

  someone give me a syntax to check the pantone color

  for example (list.fillColor == "[CMYKColor]")

  like that how to find the pantone color

  and how to get the name of the used pantone

  Thank you

  APPU

  surendarappu wrote:

  syntax to check for example the pantone color (list.fillColor == "[CMYKColor]") as this how do I find the pantone color and how to get the name of the pantone used

  if (sel.fillColor == "[SpotColor]") {
  // or...
  // if (sel.fillColor.typename == "SpotColor") {
      alert(sel.fillColor.spot.name);
  }
  

• How to identify / poster separate values / colors?

  Does anyone know how to identify all the values in a posterized in grayscale? Also is there a way to make some sort of list of these values / colors in the layers, channels, etc.?

  Basically I have a grayscale image that has been poster in 11 neutral gray values. I know how to select each value separately, but I really want to be able to 1) have Photoshop automatically identify each set to black on white in a list, and displays those values in a list - 2) somehow preferably something I can click to select values. I mean like in a game of Munsell by neutral gray values.

  OK cool thanks - so it looks like I can use scales like those you provided previously by selecting a corresponding value then the numbers RGB of this value to the values of Munsell in a grayscale photo.

  https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell_color_system

  

• How can I change my design to a pantone color together?

  Can someone please help as how to change my document to be pantone 280C?

  If the identity of the brand should always be Pantone 280 logo should exist as such. Ideally, a logo should be designed in the expected color, in levels of gray and black & white. Are these are available in the original native format? Always lean towards the use of a vector image format if available.

  It is important to know how it is to be printed. My answer "1 - export a PDF ready press and your printer to print all in Pantone 280.» They print everything in shades of gray and run Pantone 280 " only works in traditional offset. If it is digital printing answer 2 applies.

  For a jpg file, open the image in Photoshop (or equivalent) and convert it to grayscale (giving it a unique name; save your original).

  In InDesign select the image with the direct Selection tool and apply the Pantone color chart.

  

• How to save pdf that contains pantone colors properly?

  Hello everyone. Here's the problem:

  I usually do my work in CMYK, but one of the concepts of my client require two Pantone colors. I use the Pantone swatch library colors and save as pdf print ready file. But, after sending a file to typography, I get my file back with the message that there is no Pantone colors - I have used CMYK. I don't convert all colors to CMYK before save, I googled on this topic and I'm sure I did everything right. I called guy of typography, and he told me how to convert Pantone colors. I did as he told me, but the result is always the same: Pantone colors went to the final pdf format. Is it possible, after registration in pdf format there is somewhere in the checkbox, which converts all colors to CMYK? Because I do other work for this client, I don't want to deal with this problem once again - so if anyone has an idea, what the problem is, I'll be very grateful for your answers.f this issue

  Thank you

  What book color did you use? Not the process that I hope. If so, that's the problem.

• How to script Illustrator to get a library of shades PANTONE color chart

  I've searched high and low, but can't find the answer to this question.  Quite simply, I need a script to convert all spot colors PANTONE an Illustrator file in the PANTONE BRIDGE book CMYK equivalents.

  To do this, however, it seems necessary for the script to search through the various books PANTONE swatch library color to find the one I'm looking for.  I have a string that I need, but I don't see how ExtendScript can perform a search in the libraries of different shades (or even just the a library - 'Coated + PANTONE Color Bridge (UN)'.  I can't just to watch the nuances that are in the main "Swatches" palette using Document.swatches.  Any ideas?

  I'm afraid that code gives me an "MRAP" error in the ESTK.  But, I actually found a way around the problem by using your original suggestion to have a separate file with all color swatches Pantone, added to this, then the script can enter this shade, grasp its getInternalColor, turn it into a CMYKColor, then assign the extracted values of getInternalColor of four properties of the colors of the new shade.

  Yes, it is a bit of a roundabout method and takes a lot of code, but it does the job quickly, and that's what I need.  Here is the code I have (the "workDoc" has already been assigned to the currently open document.):

  // To finish up, we delete the other two layers beyond the first and then save the file for use as digital printing file.
  // First, delete the two layers.
  workDoc.layers[2].locked = false;
  workDoc.layers[2].remove();
  workDoc.layers[1].locked = true;
  //          workDoc.layers[1].remove();
  
  // Before grouping and mirroring all of the artwork, it's time to convert all spot colors to process
  // using the PANTONE Bridge book as a reference.
  
  // First, let's open up the reference document that has all of the PANTONE Bridge book colors as swatches.
  var bridgeDoc = app.open(File("~/Documents/PantoneBridge.ai"));
  
  // Since attempting to colorize textFrame objects seems to crash Illustrator, we're best off just converting them all to paths anyway.
  var texts = workDoc.textFrames;
  for (var t = 0; t < texts.length; t++)
  {
            texts[t].createOutline();
  }
  
  var items = workDoc.pathItems;
  for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++)
  {
            var myPath = items[i];
            if (myPath.fillColor .typename == "SpotColor")
            {
                      try {var procSwatch = workDoc.swatches.getByName(myPath.fillColor.spot.name + "P");}
                                catch (e) {var procSwatch = addProcSwatch(myPath.fillColor.spot.name + "P", bridgeDoc.swatches);}
                      changePaths(myPath.fillColor.spot.name, procSwatch.color);
            }
  
            if (myPath.fillColor.typename == "GradientColor")
            {
                      for (var g = 0; g < myPath.fillColor.gradient.gradientStops.length; g++)
                      {
                                var gStop = myPath.fillColor.gradient.gradientStops[g].color;
                                if (gStop.typename == "SpotColor")
                                {
                                          try {var procSwatch = workDoc.swatches.getByName(gStop.spot.name + "P");}
                                                    catch (e) {var procSwatch = addProcSwatch(gStop.spot.name + "P", bridgeDoc.swatches);}
                                          changePaths(gStop.spot.name, procSwatch.color);
                                }
                      }
            }
  
            if (myPath.strokeColor .typename == "SpotColor")
            {
                      try {var procSwatch = workDoc.swatches.getByName(myPath.strokeColor.spot.name + "P");}
                                catch (e) {var procSwatch = addProcSwatch(myPath.strokeColor.spot.name + "P", bridgeDoc.swatches);}
                      changePaths(myPath.strokeColor.spot.name, procSwatch.color);
            }
  
            if (myPath.strokeColor.typename == "GradientColor")
            {
                      for (var g = 0; g < myPath.strokeColor.gradient.gradientStops.length; g++)
                      {
                                var gStop = myPath.strokeColor.gradient.gradientStops[g].color;
                                if (gStop.typename == "SpotColor")
                                {
                                          try {var procSwatch = workDoc.swatches.getByName(gStop.spot.name + "P");}
                                                    catch (e) {var procSwatch = addProcSwatch(gStop.spot.name + "P", bridgeDoc.swatches);}
                                          changePaths(gStop.spot.name, procSwatch.color);
                                }
                      }
            }
  }
  
  var rasters = workDoc.rasterItems;
  var bitmapFound = false;
  var checkForTint = false;
  for (var i = 0; i < rasters.length; i++)
  {
            var myRaster = rasters[i];
            if (myRaster.channels == 1 && myRaster.colorizedGrayscale) {if (myRaster.colorizedGrayscale) {bitmapFound = true;}}
            else if (myRaster.channels < 4 && myRaster.colorizedGrayscale)
            {
                      if (/^PANTONE/.test(myRaster.colorants[0]))
                      {
                                try {var rastSwatch = workDoc.swatches.getByName(myRaster.colorants[0] + "P");}
                                          catch (e) {var rastSwatch = addProcSwatch(myRaster.colorants[0] + "P", bridgeDoc.swatches);}
                                changeRasters(myRaster.colorants[0], rastSwatch.color);
                      }
            }
  }
  
  if (bitmapFound) {alert("Found at least one colorized raster image in the Digital file.  Please manually change their colorants to CMYK.\nPlease see Chris McGee for more information.");}
  if (checkForTint) {alert("At least one raster image in the art has been converted to CMYK.  However, if its former spot color was tinted less than 100%, then you will need to manually change the colorant in the Digital file to match.\nPlease see Chris McGee for more information.");}
  
  // We should be done now with the PANTONE Bridge reference document, so close that.
  bridgeDoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
  app.redraw();
  
  function addProcSwatch(swatchToGet, docSwatches)
  {
            var bridgeSwatch = docSwatches.getByName(swatchToGet);
            var newSwatch = workDoc.swatches.add();
            var spotName = bridgeSwatch.color.spot.name;
            var spotValue = bridgeSwatch.color.spot.getInternalColor();
            newSwatch.color = CMYKColor;
            newSwatch.name = spotName;
            newSwatch.color.cyan = spotValue[0];
            newSwatch.color.magenta = spotValue[1];
            newSwatch.color.yellow = spotValue[2];
            newSwatch.color.black = spotValue[3];
            return newSwatch;
  }
  
  function changePaths (colorName, newColor)
  {
            var allItems = workDoc.pathItems;
            for (var j = 0; j < allItems.length; j++)
            {
                      var thisPath = allItems[j];
                      if (thisPath.fillColor.typename == "SpotColor" && thisPath.fillColor.spot.name == colorName)
                      {
                                var thisTint = thisPath.fillColor.tint / 100;
  
                                thisPath.fillColor = newColor;
                                thisPath.fillColor.cyan *= thisTint;
                                thisPath.fillColor.magenta *= thisTint;
                                thisPath.fillColor.yellow *= thisTint;
                                thisPath.fillColor.black *= thisTint;
                      }
  
                      if (thisPath.fillColor.typename == "GradientColor")
                      {
                                for (var g = 0; g < thisPath.fillColor.gradient.gradientStops.length; g++)
                                {
                                          var gStop = thisPath.fillColor.gradient.gradientStops[g];
                                          if (gStop.color.typename == "SpotColor" && gStop.color.spot.name == colorName)
                                          {
                                                    var thisTint = gStop.color.tint / 100;
                                                    gStop.color = newColor;
  
                                                    gStop.color.cyan *= thisTint;
                                                    gStop.color.magenta *= thisTint;
                                                    gStop.color.yellow *= thisTint;
                                                    gStop.color.black *= thisTint;
                                          }
                                }
                      }
  
                      if (thisPath.strokeColor.typename == "SpotColor" && thisPath.strokeColor.spot.name == colorName)
                      {
                                var thisTint = thisPath.strokeColor.tint / 100;
  
                                thisPath.strokeColor = newColor;
                                thisPath.strokeColor.cyan *= thisTint;
                                thisPath.strokeColor.magenta *= thisTint;
                                thisPath.strokeColor.yellow *= thisTint;
                                thisPath.strokeColor.black *= thisTint;
                      }
  
                      if (thisPath.strokeColor.typename == "GradientColor")
                      {
                                for (var g = 0; g < thisPath.strokeColor.gradient.gradientStops.length; g++)
                                {
                                          var gStop = thisPath.strokeColor.gradient.gradientStops[g];
                                          if (gStop.color.typename == "SpotColor" && gStop.color.spot.name == colorName)
                                          {
                                                    var thisTint = gStop.color.tint / 100;
                                                    gStop.color = newColor;
  
                                                    gStop.color.cyan *= thisTint;
                                                    gStop.color.magenta *= thisTint;
                                                    gStop.color.yellow *= thisTint;
                                                    gStop.color.black *= thisTint;
                                          }
                                }
                      }
            }
  }
  
  function changeRasters (colorName, newColor)
  {
            var allRasters = workDoc.rasterItems;
            for (var j = 0; j < allRasters.length; j++)
            {
                      var thisRaster = allRasters[j];
                      if (thisRaster.channels > 1 && thisRaster.channels < 4 && thisRaster.colorizedGrayscale)
                      {
                                if (/^PANTONE/.test(thisRaster.colorants[0]) && thisRaster.colorants[0] == colorName)
                                {
                                          thisRaster.colorize(newColor);
                                          checkForTint = true;
                                }
                      }
            }
  }
  // That concludes all of the color-changing steps.
  

  I hope this helps someone else who is faced with this (admittedly unusual) situation.

• How is the Pantone color chart more Series is not everything appears under the pantone + solid coated library? Some colors are missing...?

  In illustrator CC under the menu LIBRARY of NUANCES, under COLOR BOOKS, in PANTONE + COATING SOLID, I can not find the green color C 2290 or any green color of the series?

  These colors are available? What's wrong?

  Standard text:

  Update of the Adobe color books:

  http://Pantone.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/A_ID/1803/~/exporting-PANTONE-libraries-for-Adobe-and-other-solutions-from-PANTONE-color

  PANTONE Color Manager does not 'automatically' Refresh libraries; on the contrary, it gives you access to libraries for export in your applications.

  The steps to do this are entirely documented within the system of online help installed with the software and accessible from the Help menu. You can find them on Page 11 y. Here's a brief description:

  1. If your target applications are open, close them.
  2. launch PANTONE Color Manager
  3. go on display/Fandeck, then select the library you want to export.*
  4. go to file/export/select your application/choose L * a * b * to print or sRGB for Web design *.
  5. the library is exported and is now accessible from your target application.

  * PANTONE Color Manager also allows you the flexibility to assemble and work with color palettes, or apply an output profile for your front of libraries/pallets for export, to provide management of the PANTONE colors for a particular device. Please refer to the 'Help' system for more details.

  * PANTONE + Color Bridge libraries must be exported in CMYK.

  -OB

• Pantone colors

  How to change the color of an item on photoshop for a different color using pantone colors.

  Actual Pantone colors as Spot channels?

  Otherwise, please refer to what is sure to be many tutorials on the recovery of objects in Photoshop.

  Change the color of an object in Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Photoshop CC tutorials

  Photoshop change object color

• After you have installed the latest Pantone color library in photoshop, some colors are inaccessible

  I try to refer to a specific Pantone color in Photoshop. I want to use the color library browser, so that I can easily get an overview of my chosen color variants. The color, I'm working with is not available in the original Pantone Coated color book provided with my version of Photoshop. So I downloaded and installed the Pantone color Manager and checked the color I want IS identified in the book lying in the Pantone color Manager. Great! I saved the book of color as a .acb file and installed in Photoshop. But I can not yet select some colors. They exist in Pantone color Manager, but they are not searchable from within Photoshop. Very strange!

  Here are the steps I followed to bring the book of the color in Photoshop:

  1. launch Pantone Color Manager

  2. Select the formula Guide - coated color book

  3. perform a search for "2128" and ensure that color exists.

  4. choose Save as... and save the file with a .acb (Adobe color book) file. I named it "PANTONE + Solid Coated - V3.acb.

  5. exit Photoshop

  6 copy the book of color in books color file in Photoshop (/ Applications / Adobe Photoshop CC 2015/Presets/color books).

  7. start Photoshop.

  8. open the color picker and click the button "color libraries".

  9. choose my new book of color in the menu ("PANTONE + Solid Coated-V3')

  10 type '2128': not found (Photoshop shows me 212c instead).

  I scrolled the book color in Photoshop - color isn't here!

  What I am doing wrong?

  You want to export the color book. Then it must meet 2-1-2-8 in the Photoshop color picker and I would choose Lab as the color model during export.

  

  Gene

• PANTONE color Mismatch - Please Help!

  Hi all

  I'm sure this is an old topic, but I'm pulling out my hair at this time to try to understand why a color marked as Pantone Orange 021 C poster completely differently in the two files.

  Basically, I was sent a swatch source file to work from (in the form of a PDF document with coloured boxes and their Pantone code written on them), but when I copy and paste a color into my new file or select it from the swatches Pantone, color is completely different and in-depth has different LAB and CMYK colors to the original file.

  I see that my new file displays the color as a color of paper, in which case the source PDF displays colors in CMYK... that means that my source file was made using the non-Pantone book more color?

  If so, could someone please suggest how I could copy and paste these colors in my new files using the original CMYK values? Essentially, it is important that I keep the colors in my new compatible with the source PDF file - tips on how to do this would be greatly appreciated...

  P.S. I use Illustrator CC and made sure that I work in the same evidence in place.

  Thank you very much

  

  Giles

  Yes, your source file was made with old books of color Pantone containing simulation CMYK values.

  Since the CS6 these CMYK values are no longer present in the Pantone libraries +, but Lab values are used to calculate the closest possible CMYK simulation based on your color settings.

  Lab values for this color have not changed.

  If you want to keep the old values CMYK, double click on the nuance in the swatches Panel in your old document and choose: Type color > color

• PANTONE color bitmap transparently

  I have a 1 color raster image that I would place in InDesign so that the black areas are a Pantone color, and the white areas are transparent. How I would establish that in Photoshop?

  screenshot with Photoshop active at the top of the page, down Indesign